2021

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Amazon Launches Ethereum for Managed Blockchain

CTOvision

Two years after announcing the general availability of its fully-managed blockchain service, Amazon has extended it with Ethereum support. Using Ethereum on Managed Blockchain, developers can easily instantiate Ethereum nodes without […].

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How to Empower Transformation and Create ROI with Intelligent Automation

Social, Agile and Transformation

CIO and IT leaders have the greatest opportunities to modernize their enterprise platforms, change the culture, and deliver digital business transformations. The secret is out – while first-era digital transformations were driven by improving customer experiences and leading the organization to be more data-driven, all roads on the customer journey map lead to.

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Kaseya Ransomware Attack: What to Know About Supply Chain Security

CTOvision

Despite warnings about the dangers to software supply chains following the cyberespionage campaign that targeted SolarWinds and the company’s customers, organizations in the U.S. and around the world are dealing with the fallout of yet another attack that took advantage of security weaknesses in these IT ecosystems. Read more about the Kaseya ransomware supply chain […].

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Analyze This: CompTIA’s New Data Analytics Certification

Association of Information Technology Professional

Next year, CompTIA will launch a new data analytics certification, CompTIA Data+. Learn about it and how data analytics skills can help advance your career.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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5 Ways to Say Thanks to Teams Driving Digital Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Happy Thanksgiving! I love this time of year. Just being outside to see the leaves and feel the colder, thinner air. Enjoying the warmer days where I am satisfied with a harvest salad, and the colder nights when I can experiment with making a yummy soup. At StarCIO, some of our work with clients and speaking at conferences slow down, and it gives me time to lift my head.

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How to Expand Data Governance with Successful Citizen Data Science

Social, Agile and Transformation

How do you get business leaders to participate in data governance programs? Many business leaders still believe that it's IT's issue to fix all the problems when there are data issues. I provide an answer to this dilemma in a recent episode of 5 Minutes with NYIke (embedded at the end of this post), where I discuss how combining citizen data science with data.

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XDR FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions on Extended Detection and Response

Forrester IT

As is expected with any new market segment or capability, questions about Extended Detection & Response (XDR) abound. I wrote this blog to answer a few of the more common questions I’m getting from Forrester clients and from security vendors that are trying to figure this space out. What is XDR? An incredibly simplified way […].

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It’s Time For The Infosec Industry To Address Gender Bias And Bullying Head On

Forrester IT

The week of July 12 was a big one (not in a good way) for showcasing the persistence and depth of harassment and exclusion for women in cybersecurity. Those on infosec social media were flooded with bikini selfies protesting the harassment that a woman received for posting her own bikini selfie. Men and women took […].

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How To Master Emerging Technologies in the 2020s?

Forrester IT

Social, mobile, big data and cloud are mainstream. What is next? These technologies helped startups become multibillion-dollar enterprises and led to an AI revival. Today, however, only about ¼ of efforts gets past pilot phase with AI. Is implementing AI in production going to trigger new waves of change? Will the pattern be similar to […].

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COVID-19 Accelerates Digital Business In 2021

Forrester IT

Forrester’s latest research on digital business maturity shows that business leaders now consider accelerating the shift to digital business the most critical priority in 2021. It should come as no surprise that COVID-19 has widened the digital business gap between digitally advanced firms and firms that were caught off guard by the pandemic. Less obvious […].

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Adaptive Firms Outperform The Competition

Forrester IT

We have heard it again and again: the pace of change has never been faster, and it is not going to slow down. To win, the most successful organizations will those who are able to capitalize on this market dynamism. Forrester finds that firms with a future fit strategy succeed in this new reality by […].

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Three Human-Centered Imperatives For Our Tech-Enabled Future

Forrester IT

My previous blog noted that “technology has been modernized separately, to a meaningful degree, from the people and processes interacting with that technology.” This phenomenon has been driven primarily from the outdated managerial approach that the application of technology simply supports the efficiency of a given product or service. Organizations can no longer use this mindset and […].

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Ransomware: Survive By Outrunning The Guy Next To You

Forrester IT

There are two people in a wood, and they run into a bear. The first person gets down on his knees to pray; the second person starts lacing up his boots. The first person asks the second person, “My dear friend, what are you doing? You can’t outrun a bear.” To which the second person […].

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Dapr: Service Mesh Done Right?

Forrester IT

With the recent announcement that Dapr has reached its first production-ready release, we finally see a viable response to Istio and perhaps the rest of the service mesh industry from Microsoft. If you’re not familiar, Dapr is a coding framework intended to solve the challenges of modern distributed applications. You may be asking, “But isn’t […].

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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Zero Trust Is Not A Security Solution; It’s A Strategy

Forrester IT

One of the top challenges and misunderstandings that I continue to see here at Forrester is about what the definition of Zero Trust actually is. Zero Trust is not one product or platform; it’s a security framework built around the concept of “never trust, always verify” and “assuming breach.” Attempting to buy Zero Trust as […].

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Microsoft Is Now A Cybersecurity Behemoth

Forrester IT

In our prior Tech Titans research, we mentioned that Microsoft was poised to become a security behemoth. Today, Microsoft announced that its cybersecurity business has grown to over $10 billion in revenue. Ten billion dollars in revenue with 400,000 customers cements the vendor as a cybersecurity behemoth, without a doubt. As more and more businesses […].

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Four Themes Will Shape The Future Of Insurance

Forrester IT

The future of insurance is here. That’s my view and I am sticking to it. Insurers can no longer wait on the sidelines. You must get in the game. What game you ask? The game for who wins the hearts and wallets of tomorrow’s insurance customer. Your competitors (think Amazon, Tesla, and Lemonade) give consumers […].

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Channel Software Tech Stack 2021

Forrester IT

^CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SCREEN^ The channel software stack comprises a group of technologies that help companies develop, design, and execute plans to find, recruit, onboard, develop, enable, incent, co-sell with, manage, measure, and report on partners. Delivering automation of indirect sales processes, workflows, and partner programs, channel software is becoming increasingly critical to a […].

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Degree Requirements Are Poisoning Your Cybersecurity Talent Pool

Forrester IT

There’s no shortage of obstacles holding back folks from finding meaningful employment in the cybersecurity sector. Some of these obstacles are imposed by human resources policies and the software used to automatically scan through resumes in a game of electronic buzzword bingo. One of the most insidious of these being the requirement of a college […].

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Biden Executive Order Bets Big On Zero Trust For Future of US Cybersecurity

Forrester IT

This may be a bit of a long blog due to the extensive nature of the Executive Order On Improving The Nation’s Cybersecurity and its impact on cybersecurity and the Zero Trust approach. The Biden administration also published a “FACT SHEET: President Signs Executive Order Charting New Course to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Protect […].

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Building A Private Bank For The Next Generation

Forrester IT

Significant gaps continue to exist in private banking, forcing firms to rethink pricing and organizational models. As a result, high-net-worth clients are not fully benefiting from some of the digital innovations that are changing how customers interact with their private banks. To identify “The Top Global Private Banking Trends In 2021,” we interviewed senior executives […].

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Revenge Of The SaaS: Mandiant Uses Services To Escape FireEye

Forrester IT

Revenge Of The SaaS: Mandiant Dumps FEYE In a cybersecurity divorce that had fewer leading indicators than the dissolution of Kim and Kanye, Mandiant has finally untangled itself from FireEye (FEYE) by selling the product portion of the firm to Symphony Technology Group (STG) for $1.2 billion. FireEye’s history as the most “almost acquired vendor” […].

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Consumers Are On Social Media, But That Doesn’t Mean They Want To Hear From You

Forrester IT

It’s 2021. Social media is ubiquitous, from social networks to forums to brand-created communities to messaging apps. Brand marketers shouldn’t be asking if their consumers are on social media, but rather, “Do they want to hear from my brand?” Our new Landscape report in the Forrester Social Marketing Playbook breaks down the four types of […].

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AI Drives The Evolution Of Technology And Data Governance

Forrester IT

In my recent Forrester webinar I outlined how AI drives the evolution of technology and data governance, and how an increase in customer demand and regulatory activity will necessitate companies to take a closer look at their approach (Forrester clients can access the replay here). In this blog post I’d like to recap the two […].

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Top 143 Social Media Groups For MSPs, VARs, And Tech Channel Professionals

Forrester IT

The channel is very large, highly diverse, and incredibly decentralized. Channel partners know that to be successful, they need to carve out a niche — whether that be by line of business, by industry (and, increasingly, by subindustry), by size of customer, geographically, technologically, and by business model. These six vectors are not mutually exclusive, […].

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The Cyber Insurance Roller Coaster: As Demand Speeds Up, Some Insurers Disembark

Forrester IT

The first half of 2021 has been anything but quiet for cyberinsurance! Forrester has seen a steady flow of client inquiries on the topic, with questions coming in not just from the private but also the public sector. Some are trying to navigate acquiring a cyberinsurance policy for the first time, while others are struggling […].

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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The 100 Best Channel Podcasts Of 2021

Forrester IT

Since posting our top 64 channel podcasts in 2019, there has been explosive growth in podcast adoption. The audio-only format is also expanding with the invite- and iOS-only upstart Clubhouse achieving 16.4 million downloads since it debuted last year, according to Sensor Tower. Responding to this initial success, leading social media companies such as […].

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Forr The Planet: Sustainability Interview Series — Cisco

Forrester IT

The telecommunications sector is at a crucial juncture in its sustainability story. Many organizations are finding their ground in setting the right targets, penetrating the supply chain, and addressing their customers’ questions on sustainability. We spoke with R. Scott Herren, Cisco’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, and Francine (Fran) Katsoudas, executive vice president […].

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Employee Wellbeing Is A Shared Responsibility

Forrester IT

I spent the early days of my career in the early 90’s studying manufacturing engineering at University then working in a ship repair yard. I was taught to weld by a gruff Geordie who handed me a visor, a live arc-welder and told me “don’t look into the light. You’ll go blind”. I didn’t. That […].

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COVID-19 Accelerated Your Digital Momentum — Don’t Slow Down Now

Forrester IT

Your digital transformation initiatives may have been floundering pre-COVID, but that’s ancient history now. Like many other firms, the global pandemic likely forced you to shift almost overnight to only engaging your customers virtually, thrusting the digital teams to the forefront of your firm’s business strategy. The impact on digital strategy, priorities, and approaches has […].

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.